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CreativeLive – Secrets from Silicon Valley
14 Video lessons in HD
14h 39m of class content
LESSONS
DAY 1
1. Chase Jarvis – Introduction
2. Pamela Slim – How To Quickly Move From Idea To Action
3. Chris Guillebeau – The $100 StartUp
4. Niniane Wang – Creating A Great Website On A Budget
5. Glenn Kelman – How To Sell Your Company W/O Selling Your Soul
6. David Goldberg – The Art Of Asking A Question
7. Nirav Tolia & Sarah Leary – Look Before You Leap
DAY 2
8. Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha – The Start-Up Of You
9. Spencer Rascoff – Lessons From 15 Years In Tech
10. Guy Kawasaki – The Art Of Enchantment
11. Gary Swart – How To Get More Done
12. Toni Schneider – Managing A Distributed Workforce
13. Megan Smith – 21st Century Collaboration And Opportunities
14. Chase Jarvis – Wrap-Up
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Just as Hollywood implies celebrity, Silicon Valley is synonymous with innovation. Attracting the greatest business minds in the world, Silicon Valley is the world’s startup epicenter. Now, creativeLIVE offers you direct access to the pioneering minds behind this powerful community.
Whether your business employs one person or fifty, you’ll learn how to survive, grow, and thrive directly from entrepreneurs who have done just that. After two days of unprecedented access to the secrets of Silicon Valley, you will understand the strategies behind the greatest success stories of our time.
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REID HOFFMAN
Reid Hoffman is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock. An accomplished entrepreneur, executive and investor, Reid has played an integral part in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal, where he was executive vice president and founding board member. Today, he is a director at Airbnb, Zynga, Mozilla, Shopkick, Wrapp, Edmodo and Kiva.org. He is also co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. He studied symbolic systems at Stanford University and philosophy at Oxford University.
BEN CASNOCHA
Ben Casnocha is an award winning entrepreneur and author from Silicon Valley. He is coauthor with LinkedIn founder/chairman Reid Hoffman of the #1 New York Times bestselling book The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. Ben has separately written for Newsweek, the American Enterprise Institute, NPR’s “Marketplace†and the U.S. State Department. In addition to his writing, Ben is a technology entrepreneur. He founded Comcate, Inc., a leading e-government software company, at age 14. He wrote a book about his experience titled My Start-Up Life. PoliticsOnline named him one of the “25 most influential people in the world of internet and politics.†He also incubates and advises internet entrepreneurs at Wasabi Ventures. BusinessWeek named Ben “one of America’s top young entrepreneurs.†And dozens of outlets have covered his work including CNN, The Economist, and CNBC.
SPENCER RASCOFF
Spencer Rascoff is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace. Spencer joined the company as one of its founding employees in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Marketing and served as its Chief Operating Officer from October 2008 through his promotion to CEO in September 2010. Under Spencer’s leadership, Zillow achieved record Web and mobile traffic, record revenue and record profitability in 2011, and successfully completed its IPO in July 2011.Spencer regularly appears on national broadcast television programs on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Fox News to discuss real estate data, housing trends and the Zillow business. Spencer is a recognized leader in the real estate industry and has received numerous awards including: Fortune’s 2012 40 Under 40 Hottest Young Stars in Business, Forbes’ America’s 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under in 2012 and 2013, Inman News’ 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders in 2012, Inman News’ 2011 Innovator of the Year Award, Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2011 40 Under 40 and Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2008 CFO of the Year finalist.
DAVID GOLDBERG
Dave Goldberg is the Chief Executive Officer of SurveyMonkey, the leading provider of online survey solutions. Dave has been a successful entrepreneur, investor and technology and music industry executive. He has run and successfully grown several online consumer businesses. Dave founded LAUNCH Media Inc. in 1994, which delivered music and music-related content online, and he led the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001. Following the sale, Dave served as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Music where he led the company’s global music operations and built it into the Internet’s most-visited music destination. In 2006, Dave was named one of Billboard Magazine’s top power players in digital music. From 2007 until he joined SurveyMonkey in 2009, Dave served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Benchmark Capital where he evaluated investment opportunities for the firm and advised portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Dave was director of marketing strategy and new business development at Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Currently, Dave also serves on the board of directors at The Washington Post, Dashbox and the non-profit New Schools Venture Fund. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and government.
CHRIS GUILLEBEAU
Chris Guillebeau is the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup. During a lifetime of self-employment, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. Every summer in Portland, Oregon he hosts the World Domination Summit, a gathering of creative, remarkable people. Connect with Chris on Twitter, on his blog, or at your choice of worldwide airline lounge.
GUY KAWASAKI
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a brand ambassador for Mercedes Benz USA, and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). He was also the chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
MEGAN SMITH
Megan is an entrepreneur, tech evangelist, engineer, and connector. At Google[x], Megan works on range of projects including co-creating/hosting SolveForX. For nine years prior she led Google’s New Business Development team managing early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations, and technology licensing for Google’s global engineering and product teams. She led the acquisitions of Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps) and Picasa, and also led the Google.org team transition to add more engineering with Google Crisis Response, GoogleforNonprofits, Earth Outreach/Engine and increased employee engagement. Prior to joining Google, Megan was CEO and, earlier, COO of PlanetOut, the leading LGBT online community, where the team broke through many barriers and partnered closely with AOL, Yahoo!, MSN and other major web players, and was early at General Magic and Apple Japan. Over the years, Megan has contributed to a wide range of engineering projects, including an award-winning bicycle lock, space station construction program, solar cookstoves and was a member of the MIT student team who designed, built and raced a solar car 2000 miles across the Australian outback. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she now serves on the board. She completed her master’s thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.
GLENN KELMAN
Glenn is Redfin’s CEO. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. In his seven years at Plumtree, Glenn at different times led engineering, marketing, product management and business development; he also was responsible for financing and general operations in Plumtree’s early days. Prior to starting Plumtree, Glenn worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. Glenn was raised in Seattle and was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a regular contributor to Redfin’s blog and Twitter.
SARAH LEARY
Sarah is Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing at Nextdoor. Prior to Nextdoor, Sarah worked at Benchmark as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Sarah also previously served as Vice President of Marketing at Shopping.com, where she led the effort to create, brand and launch Shopping.com following the Epinions-DealTime merger. Before Epinions, Sarah worked as an associate at Greylock Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. She started her career at Microsoft, where she spent nearly five years as a product manager on the teams that launched Office 4.0, Office 95 and Office 97. Sarah graduated with a BA and a MBA from Harvard University. She is originally from Andover, MA.
TONI SCHNEIDER
Toni Schneider is CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and a partner at True Ventures, one of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firms. He serves on the boards of Bandcamp, Madefire, and Showyou, and advises Singly. Past startup credits include co-founder of Sphere (acquired by AOL) and CEO of Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo). Toni was voted startup CEO of the Year at the 2007 Crunchies. He grew up in Switzerland and studied computer science at Stanford.
PAMELA SLIM
Pamela Slim is an award-winning author, speaker and leader in the new world of work. She spent the first 10 years of her solo practice as a consultant to large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of employees, managers and executives. In 2005, she started the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, which is now one of the top career and business sites on the web. She has coached thousands of budding entrepreneurs, in businesses ranging from martial art studios to software start ups.
GARY SWART
Gary Swart is the CEO of oDesk, the world’s largest online workplace—on which more than 35 million hours were worked in 2012 alone. Gary is a thought leader in entrepreneurship; how best to hire and manage teams; and the future of work, especially online work. He is passionate about helping small businesses thrive, fueled by his extensive experience working with startups and small businesses that use oDesk, as well as by mentoring entrepreneurs and business school students. Gary has spoken at the Inc. Leadership Conference, The Economist’s Ideas Economy panel, South by Southwest, TechCrunch 50, TiECon, GigaOM’s Net:Work Conference in 2010 and 2011, and at Harvard Business School which teaches a case study on oDesk. His commentary has appeared in a variety of publications including Forbes, TechCrunch and The Washington Post. He has also appeared on numerous TV and radio shows, including BBC, National Public Radio, CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Previously, he led SMB Sales for the Americas at IBM’s Rational Software Product Group, and also served as VP of Worldwide Sales at Intellibank, where he was responsible for leading the sales organization. Gary holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.
NIRAV TOLIA
Nirav Tolia is Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor, a consumer Internet startup that is dedicated to helping neighbors create happier and safer neighborhoods. Nextdoor is funded by Benchmark Capital, where Nirav served as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Prior to Benchmark, Nirav was COO of Shopping.com, a company created through the merger of DealTime and Epinions, where Nirav was CEO and Co-Founder. Prior to Epinions, Nirav was an early employee at Yahoo!. He graduated from Stanford University and is originally from Odessa, TX.
NINIANE WANG
Niniane leads the world-class Minted engineering team to develop features and keep the site running smoothly. She has led engineering as the company grew from 30 to 100 employees, and increased revenue many-fold. She has 14 years of experience leading engineering teams at Minted, Google, and Microsoft. At Google, she co-founded Desktop Search (won a Google Founder’s Award), led Gmail’s revenue team, and founded Google Lively. At Microsoft, she was an engineering leader on the Microsoft Flight Simulator team. Niniane is an inventor on 30 patents in various stages of filing. She has a MS in computer science from University of Washington, and a BS in computer science from Caltech, which she received at age 18.
TIM FERRISS
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business Peopleâ€, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know,†and is the 7th “most powerful†personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index. He is an early-stage tech investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, and 20+ more) and author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. His podcast — focused on deconstructing world-class performers — is the #1 business podcast on iTunes and was selected as “Best of 2015†by Apple.